so requires information on the nature and magnitude of market failures on the one hand, and government's capacity to …

policies of the current government could be improved (Matheson et al. 2007). This paper examines an attempt to de … government officials and experts as well as legal acts, available documents, articles, and personal interviews. The paper …

This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics … microcredit participation, especially for women. They also show that the accrued benefits of borrowing outweigh accumulated debt …. As a result, households' net worth has increased, and both poverty and the debt-asset ratio have declined …

to a few countries: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Slovenia. Due to the low incidence of household debt, hardly any … country, except Estonia, seems to face a threat of debt overhang in the household sector. The strong increase in non …This paper assesses the extent to which debt overhang poses a constraint to economic activity in Emerging Europe, as …

The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly come under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …

variability of social capital as wealth. The analysis is used to argue, given what has been learned from the literature on social … Gallup World Poll, the paper presents a range of estimates of the wealth-equivalent values of social trust. Such values are … usually not included in national or global accounts of income and wealth. In the light of the estimated importance of social …

This paper provides new empirical insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth in three of the … that while income inequality is similar to that of the United States (US), wealth inequality is barely one-third that of … SSA as in the US, the share of total wealth accumulated by the income-rich in SSA is one-fifth of its US counterpart. The …

The paper uses a detailed household survey to document precautionary wealth accumulation in Afghanistan, with wealth … being significantly higher for households facing higher income uncertainty. Annual household expenditure on nondurable goods … is also lower for these households. There is no significant difference in the wealth response to income uncertainty …